There are about 100 prisons among the 2,900-plus campuses which the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has certified as ‘Eat Right Campuses’, as part of its public health initiative to improve access to clean nutritious food.
The programme — which also covers educational institutions, workplaces, and hospitals — is part of FSSAI’s Eat Right India movement, and involves auditing, training food handlers, and then certification, which is valid for two years. Currently, all the State Bhavans in the national capital are undergoing audit and training.
Prominent Central jails that have been certified under the initiative are the Tihar in Delhi, the Central Jail in Bihar’s Gaya district, Modern Central Jail in Punjab, and the Central Jail at Rewa in Madhya Pradesh. Several district and mandal jails have also participated in the programme. The highest number of certified prisons are in Uttar Pradesh, followed by Punjab, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh.
